Boot up: Apple may invest $ 1 billion in Sharp, HP tablets not selling at Best Buy, and more

Apple chief Steve Jobs at Apple by the second generation iPad. Sale of tablet last quarter was three times sales in its first three months of photograph: Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images

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"Apple Inc may invest $ 1 billion in Sharp Corp. Kameyama factory to ensure the provision of monitors for iPhones and iPads, MF Global FXA securities wrote in a sales memo on Wednesday, sending shares in Japanese consumer electronics maker, up more than 2 percent."

"In a note to investors on Tuesday, Jeffries and co. analyst Peter Misek concluded that Apple will probably strike" back "by acquiring patents from rivals such as Nokia or research in motion as a response to Google's purchase of Motorola mobility. He also mentioned the InterDigital, which have been widely seen as a potential target for acquisition by Apple and other major players in the industry smartphone. "

"At an event last week Facebook Director of game partnerships Sean Ryan had some choice words for its new competitor."Google has emulated aspects of our system, which is what they are entitled to do, "he said. "We just need to be better." He refers to the way companies make money from casual online games like Farm ville and words with friends. Players pay for play time or virtual goods within games, and the social networks take a cut of sales. Currently, Facebook reportedly 30% from game developers, Google takes only 5%. "

"In other words-and I never thought I would say this--Steve Ballmer was correct. Android is not free. It is actually not even cheap. As John Gruber points out Fireball's Durst, $ 12.5 billion to Google spending on Motorola amounts to almost two years worth of Search company profits. No company--not even Google--can throw around these kinds of cash without devising a direct return on its investment "

"According to a source who has seen internal HP reports that Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 touch pads and has so far managed to sell only 25,000 or less than 10 percent of units in its inventory.

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